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Earth First! Summer Gathering! – 17th-22nd Aug – The address is: The Limes, Milton Rd, Gayton,Northampton NN7 3HE.
Earth First! Summer Gathering! – 17th-22nd Aug – The address is: The Limes, Milton Rd, Gayton,Northampton NN7 3HE.
For workshop programme and directions etc. see: http://earthfirstgathering.org/
THE BIG BURN!
24 hours after significant construction activity begins at Javelin Park we will be converging for The Big Burn! Come along and shield Haresfield at a community-led carnival of anti-incineration revelry. All are warmly invited to join Gloucestershire in a show of front-line protection against those that threaten us and our environment. Sign up here to ensure you receive an invitation to this most poignant of parties!
All those signed-up will, when the time beckons, receive a text message with a start time. You’ll be wanting to pack a party-bag in advance so you’ll be ready when the time comes. Imagine being the only one at the party without a costume. Only joking, you won’t be allowed in if you’re not in fancy dress. No that’s not true either. This is a community-led event and is open to all. Children most-definitely included!
Javelin Park is easily accessible from Stroud and Gloucester by car.
There will most likely be free transport running to the Big Burn. Please contact honeybuzzard@riseup.net to request or offer a lift!
Take Note!:
The Big Burn! will be a show of community protection against the threat of harm to our health and environment posed by the Haresfield Incinerator. This industry is supported by the state and therefore there will almost certainly be a police-presence. Know your rights, read this pamphlet (opens in new tab) and don’t be intimidated. The Big Burn! will be a inclusive, friendly space and we won’t be bullied.
See you at the party, it’ll be cookin’…!
Directions, more details including what to bring and not to bring and TO SIGN UP, here
Sept 23, 2015
Sept 23, 2015
Terry Hadland, a Peace River farmer, says he should have got the police bullet that killed a man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask outside a Site C open house this summer.
“He created a diversion so I could get away,” Mr. Hadland told The Globe and Mail in an interview. “He stepped up and took that shot for me, that’s for sure.”
RCMP were called to the open house in Dawson Creek on July 16 after getting calls about a man causing a disturbance at the British Columbia Hydro public information session.
One day after the hacker group Anonymous vowed to “avenge one of our own” following the shooting, the group is claiming to have crashed parts of the RCMP website on Sunday morning.
A Twitter account associated with the global activist group has posted photos showing the Dawson Creek RCMP website server status listed as “down.”
– See more at: http://www.alaskahighwaynews.ca/dawson-creek/police-mum-on-link-between-police-shooting-anonymous-group-1.2005056#sthash.SbEOrEJA.dpuf
Mr. Hadland said he was the man causing trouble, but he left before police arrived, and officers confronted another man, who was reportedly carrying a knife and wearing the trademark mask of the hacktivist group Anonymous. Moments later, shots were fired, and James McIntyre, a dishwasher at Le’s Family Restaurant, was dead outside the Stonebridge Hotel’s Fixx Urban Grill.
In response to the shooting, Anonymous promised retribution, subsequently posting a 2014 Treasury Board memo about Canadian Security Intelligence Service funding, and threatening to leak more material.
One day after the hacker group Anonymous vowed to “avenge one of our own” following the shooting, the group is claiming to have crashed parts of the RCMP website on Sunday morning.
A Twitter account associated with the global activist group has posted photos showing the Dawson Creek RCMP website server status listed as “down.”
– See more at: http://www.alaskahighwaynews.ca/dawson-creek/police-mum-on-link-between-police-shooting-anonymous-group-1.2005056#sthash.SbEOrEJA.dpuf
One day after the hacker group Anonymous vowed to “avenge one of our own” following the shooting, the group is claiming to have crashed parts of the RCMP website on Sunday morning.
A Twitter account associated with the global activist group has posted photos showing the Dawson Creek RCMP website server status listed as “down.”
– See more at: http://www.alaskahighwaynews.ca/dawson-creek/police-mum-on-link-between-police-shooting-anonymous-group-1.2005056#sthash.hTyGNWmh.dpuf
Anonymous has already begun its retaliation campaign, knocking the main RCMP websites offline for several hours on Sunday (19 July).
This is part of the group’s campaign to “remove the RCMP cyber infrastructure from the Internet” as it calls on members to “march, create and sign petitions, hack, dox [until] all demand and justice is met”.
The hackitivst collective has also offered to raise funds for the victim’s burial.
The group leading the campaign – Operation Anon Down – also tweeted on Monday (20 July) that it had accessed documents marked “secret” inside the Canadian government, warning: “It’s not just a DDoS op anymore kiddos.”
#AnonDown has accessed docs marked “secret” inside Canadian government. It’s not just a DDoS op anymore kiddos. More tomorrow. Night all.
— Operation Anon Down (@OpAnonDown) July 20, 2015
In an emailed statement released over the weekend, Anonymous vowed to “identify the RCMP officer involved, thoroughly dox him – and release that dox on the Internet. Because the world has a right to know every detail about killer cops.”
Anonymous has a patchy history with “doxxing” police officers accused of shooting members of the public however, with one member of Anonymous having incorrectly identified the officer accused of shooting Michael Brown in Ferguson last year.
Mr. Hadland, 66, said he did not know Mr. McIntyre, 48, and regrets that his actions inadvertently brought police into conflict with him. “It’s tragic, that’s for damn sure,” he said. “They were trying to get me.”
Mr. Hadland said if police had found him instead of Mr. McIntyre, the incident would have ended peacefully. “I would have obeyed them,” he said.
Mr. Hadland, who lives off the grid on a farm in the Peace River district, said he went to the open house to protest against the controversial Site C dam.
“I’d been planning it for a couple of weeks,” he said. “I walked into the room … I thought, ‘I’m just going to push them a bit.’”
Mr. Hadland said BC Hydro officials were talking to members of the public at information tables covered with pamphlets, maps and posters.
“I flipped a couple [of tables],” he said. “I ripped up the rest of the maps …. They had placards. … I started breaking up those.”
Mr. Hadland said he was quickly surrounded by BC Hydro staff, but the confrontation did not become violent.
“They didn’t try to push me,” he said. “I made my statement and I walked out.”
Mr. Hadland said he assumes 911 calls were made during his protest, but added that if anyone reported a violent incident, then the police were misinformed and may have arrived expecting serious trouble.
“It was all very peaceful,” he said. “The police could have showed up and been amicable.”
When it was suggested that tipping over tables and tearing up posters might seem threatening to some, Mr. Hadland agreed.
“Oh, it could have been,” he acknowledged.
Mr. Hadland said he passed within metres of Mr. McIntyre in the parking lot but did not see a knife or a mask.
“I thought he was a BC Hydro person [because] he kept turning away and trying to hide his face,” he said.
Mr. Hadland was worried police were coming, so he jumped in his vehicle and drove away without looking back. He said he went to the RCMP the next day, identified himself as the man who disrupted the meeting, and told police he was concerned someone had made a 911 call “that wasn’t valid” because his protest was not violent.
Arthur Hadland, a former director of Peace River Regional District, confirmed his cousin was the man who disrupted the Site C open house.
The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) of B.C. is investigating the police shooting of Mr. McIntyre.
“It is not our practice to provide specific details about an investigation while it is still active – what I can say is that while we obtain all accessible and available information we believe is relevant to the IIO investigation, our focus is on the actions of the police officers,” Kellie Kilpatrick, an IIO spokesperson said in an e-mail.
“Since our investigation of the initial disturbance is a parallel investigation to that of the IIO’s investigation which is still ongoing, it would be inappropriate for me to comment at this time,” Corporal Dave Tyreman of the RCMP’s North District said in a separate e-mail.
BC Hydro spokesman Dave Conway declined to comment on Mr. Hadland’s version of events.
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July 2015:
B.C. Hydro Site C protest in Vancouver cancelled due to concerns about violence
Rally organizers say they’re concerned about reaction to the recent death of a man in Dawson Creek
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An alleged “anarchist cell” at the centre of one of France’s most politically-charged legal sagas is finally to be tried for sabotaging high-speed train lines.
August 9th, 2015
An alleged “anarchist cell” at the centre of one of France’s most politically-charged legal sagas is finally to be tried for sabotaging high-speed train lines.
But in a major blow to police, who conducted a seven-year investigation into the group, the four will not face terror charges, judicial sources told AFP on Saturday.
The so-called Tarnac group was rounded up in high-publicised raids in November 2008 accused of sabotaging the TGV network around Paris, a powerful symbol of French national pride and technical know-how.
Thousands of passengers and more than 160 train services were delayed after steel rods were put across overhead power cables on three high-speed lines between Paris and London, Brussels and the French regions.
Then interior minister Michele Alliot-Marie branded the group a dangerous “ultra-left anarchist movement”, but the group — who lived in a rural commune in central France — and many on the French left, accused President Nicolas Sarkozy’s right-wing government of trying to frame them.
But in a major blow to the authorities, anti-terrorist judge Jeanne Duye came down against their demands in her long-awaited judgement Friday to try them for terror offences.
– ‘The Coming Insurrection’ –
She did, however, send the group’s reclusive leader Julien Coupat, his wife Yildune Levy and two others for trial on conspiracy charges, sources said.
The group’s lawyers called the decision a “total repudiation” of the allegations against the four.
“After nearly seven years of trying to pin the blame on them, we finally have a courageous judicial decision. It is a total repudiation of the prosecution case,” Marie Dose and William Bourdon said.
“From the beginning, our clients were considered and treated like terrorists. Finally they have realised that it doesn’t stick,” they added.
“Our arrest was purely political and was based on false testimony from the police,” said another of the accused, Mathieu Burnel. “All this will fall apart at our trial.”
The case centred on the charismatic figure of Coupat, 40, a far-left intellectual from a wealthy family who had gathered a group of 20 followers around him in a remote village in the Correze region of central France.
Relying heavily on passages from a 2007 book attributed to Coupat, “The Coming Insurrection”, investigators claimed the group — the “invisible committee of the imaginary party” — had tipped over from radical anarchist politics into terrorism.
The book discussed sabotage and other ways to “finalise the fall of the state”, and mentioned the high-speed TGV network as an “easy” target.
But Coupat, who refused to confirm he was its author, said it was “risible that terrorism charges could be brought on the basis on a book on public sale.”
Coupat and Levy, 31, admitted being close to TGV lines east of Paris when an iron bar was placed on the track on the night of November 7, 2008, but denied putting it there.
Coupet spent more than six months in jail as police tried to build a case against him, with Levy also locked up for more than two months.
The prosecution has five days to appeal the judge’s decision.
from AFP
Addition: their arrest was in part down to Mark Kennedy, the British undercover cop embedded in Earth First! and the wider ecological direct action movement for over 7 years. More info
International Reclaim the Fields Action Camp 2015
International Reclaim the Fields Action Camp 2015
When: Friday 28th August (From 6pm) – Wednesday 2nd September 2015
Where: Dudleston Community Protection Camp, Shropshire (near the Wales/England Border).
About:
Reclaim the Fields UK (RTF) was born in 2011, as a star in a wider constellation of food and land struggles that reaches around the globe. Since 2011, camps and other RTF gatherings have helped support local communities in struggle, share skills, develop networks, and strengthen the resistance to exploitation, in Bristol, west London, Gloucestershire, Nottingham and Fife, among other locations.
Every two years there is also an international camp, where people from around Europe and beyond meet together to support a local struggle (standing against exploitative gold mining in Romania, and open cast coal mining in Germany, are some examples). People at these camps have shared their local stories and grown their ideas about resistance and reclaiming our food system, beyond national borders. This year, an international gathering will be held in the UK, in Dudleston, Shropshire, on the Welsh/English border.
The aims of the camp are:
• To support local communities in the west and north west of England, and the north of Wales with their struggles against fracking
• To increase participation in Reclaim the Fields
• To demonstrate visible, active opposition to prison construction
• To support Dudleston Community Protection Camp build a garden and infrastructure to become more self-reliant
• To demonstrate the interconnection between these struggles
• To inspire and radicalise everyone involved
What is happening:
• Two days of Action – Tuesday 1st & Wednesday 2nd September – demonstrations & actions against companies involved in the construction of the North Wales prison, as well as local fracking-related targets.
• Workshops & Skillshares – Over the bank holiday weekend there will be abundant opportunities to learn, share, discuss and connect with other people.
• Building & Growing on the site – Be part of installing gardens & low impact infrastructure at the community protection camp. Learn about permaculture, agroecology, forest gardening, mushroom growing, pallet construction, compost toilet making, off-grid electrics and more.
Why:
• This camp has been organised to support the local community in Dudleston to resist fracking in their area (as well as working with other local anti-fracking groups & protection camps in the North West who have been resisting extreme energy developments for a number of years). To find out more about their struggle visit: http://frack-off.org.uk/blockade/dudleston-community-protection-camp/
• It has also been organised to give attention to the North Wales Prison Project that is being constructed. This will be Europe’s second largest prison holding 2100 prisoners and the first of a number of ‘mega prisons’ that the UK Government wish to build. Click here for more information about the prison, why we are against it & links to articles about the prison industrial complex in the UK
How to get involved:
Click on the links below to find more practical information about the camp and how to get involved:
This is a DIY/DIT(ogether)* camp and everyone is needed to get stuck in to make it happen. People are needed to:
• Support with publicity before the event – sharing the gathering online, putting posters up, encouraging your local group to get involved. People are also needed to help design the programme, respond to emails & plan facilitation.
• Helping with site set up & building infrastructure (planning this in advance & being on site a few days before the gathering)
• Signing up to a shift over the weekend to help with cooking, site set up & safety, being on the welcome tent & so forth
• Supporting local groups to organise actions
If you can help with any of these tasks please email info@reclaimthefields.noflag.org.uk
Spread the word:
• Poster design here: reclaimthefields.noflag.org.uk/wp-conte…
• Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/560637597407933/
Five days of skill-sharing for grassroots ecological direct action – make links, share ideas, and get involved in the run up to the Paris climate summit, and struggles against fracking, new roads and more.
Over 130 workshops and other exciting spaces and things to do in our packed programme – come the whole time if you can! Inspiring workshops given by people from ecological struggles across Europe, plus almost every eco-campaign in the UK you could shake a stick at.
Full details including practicalities at
The Earth First! Direct Action Manual and Ecodefense: a Field Guide to Monkeywrenching, are both available to read online.
You may want to consider your security when viewing these, as with many good reads.
The release of the 3rd edition of the DAM has been a huge success. In under a year we sold out of our first print run, and have now gone back to the presses to print 2,000 additional copies so that this valuable tool remains available for the uncompromising direct action movements defending the Earth and its inhabitants.
You can download or buy them from here where there's also other useful resources such as How to Sink Whalers, Driftnetters and Other Environmentally Destructive Ships', 'Black Cat Sabotage Manual', the British-produced 'Ozymandias Sabotage Handbook' and EF! Climbers Guild publications.
from Insurrection News / Contra Info
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT…
Black June. On June 6 at about 3AM we successfully detonated an explosive device made of dynamite that was placed inside the offices of SEDATU (Ministry of Agrarian Territorial and Urban Development) located on Revolution Avenue near the corner of Rio Mixcoac in Mexico City, Mexico. The detonation destroyed the glass front of the building.
In Mexico, this secretariat – using different names – has been responsible for putting an official stamp on the turning of nature and the earth into commodities and of normalizing the dispossession and violence that the state uses in it’s accumulation of capital.
We are a group of insurrectionary anarchist feminist witches who have gathered in a cell of affinity. Our group was born on August 25 2014 when we detonated an explosive device in a PAN (National Action Party) office in the Mexico City and placed another device in the Loreto church in the historic center of the same city.
June is a month of thirty days…
We also denounce the vile way in which the mass media hides the news of the attacks and the resistance.
Solidarity with the imprisoned comrades in Chile, Italy, Greece and Spain. We are with you comrades.
Solidarity with the comrades Mario López and Carlos López. We are with you comrades.
NO VOTES. KILL THEM ALL
Mexico City, June 7, 2015
Lupe la camelina
Por la célula de difusión del
Comando feminista informal de acción antiautoritaria (Informal Feminist Commando Of Anti-authoritarian Action)
(COFIAA)
(via contra info, translated by Insurrection News)
Brought to you by HacktionLab, Bristol Wireless and FLOSS Manuals, BarnCamp 2015 will be the sixth edition of our summer camp at Highbury Farm in the beautiful Wye valley. BarnCamp is three days of workshops, discussions, demos and practical how-to sessions looking at how technology can be useful (and dangerous) for campaigners, community activists and general trouble makers.
The weekend includes:
* Three days of workshops and open space sessions.
* Four nights camping in the beautiful Wye Valley.
* Food from Friday through to Sunday (9 meals).
* Indoor and campfireside entertainment.
We have limited places so please book your place on-line today at https://barncamp.org.uk
barncamp2015@hacktionlab.org
On 13th April 2015, there was a failed eviction attempt of Leeds Community Project.
The former University of Leeds research site, a unique space of nearly one acre, contains seven glasshouses and many established plants, including rare species. It now holds many future possibilities for sustainable food growing and can be envisioned as a space for education and social events, as well as a space for nature and wildlife1. Since its closure in 2011, North Hyde Park Residents Association tried to designate 6 Grosvenor Mount as a 'community asset' and took this to Leeds City Council in an attempt to halt plans. The designation was not successful because the Council argued that the space was not being utilised by the local community. However, use of the space by the local community has not been possible due to the site being closed off.
The University has been granted detailed planning permission to renovate the current residential building and to build seven new houses where the outbuildings, glasshouses and gardens now stand. It is currently in the process of selling the space to a private investor.
On 4th March 2015 Leeds Community project (LCP) re-occupied the non-residential areas of 6 Grosvenor Mount, LS6, after an unlawful eviction.
On 19th February LCP was unlawfully evicted and three of its members were arrested before being released without charge.
